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Book Review by Catherine Mark-Beasant

John Siddique’s ‘Poems from a Northern Soul’ interlaces snapshots of daily life and landscapes in the North. Divided into three sections – ‘Visible Imprints’, ‘Available Light’ and ‘Northern Soul’ – each is rich in everyday scenes, encounters and modern day experiences. Like the zoom of a camera he captures both the panoramic and the particular in the images wrapped around the tart prose style of his poems.